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Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im Fredricka Whitfield in new york. And im jim sciutto in washington. We have a lot to cover. We sure do. Thank you for joining us. New bombings in syria, the town that suffered the chemical attack is now being hit by air strikes. Its not immediately clear who is behind these new air strikes, the planes are most likely from russia or the Syrian Regime. To be clear, this is not the same renlg that the u. S. Targeted earlier friday. U. S. Tomahawk missile...

Fabrication . Definitely, 100 fabrication. We dont have arsenal. Were not going to use it. And we have many indications, if you dont have proof, because no one has concrete evidence information or evidence. 100 fabrication. He says this as sources tell cnn that there is new evidence implicating the government, the Syrian Regime, in that attack. Weve got a lot to cover this morning. Barbara starr working her sources at the pentagon, Nick Paton Walsh next door in iraq. And nick, we should remind p...

Putin responds. Russian president Vladimir Putin calls the attack a significant blow to the russianamerican relationship as the pentagon announces its investigating possible russian involvement in the chemical attack. And staff shakeup . A senior white house official says a major staff shakeup is likely adding the situation is reaching critical mass. New questions about the future of chief strategist steve bannon and steve of staff reince priebus. We want to welcome our viewers in the United Sta...

I think what happens next, as i said, equipping the free syrian army, moving forward with taking mosul and raqqa, and creating safe havens for these refugees. We need to know if the plan is now to topple assad come need know what the post assad syria will look like, how we get there and how that makes the American People safer. I think the white house should bring to us their plan on syria. I hope that what the plan would contain would be the establishment of a humanitarian zone in Northern Syri...

For them. Theyre hosing them down. Hundreds of them. When you see that, i immediately called general mattis. I said what can we do . And they came back with a number of different alternatives. And we hit them very hard. Now, are we going to get involved with syria . No. But if i see them using gas and using things that i mean, even some of the worst tyrants in the world didnt use the kind of gases that they used. Some of the gases are unbelievably potent. So when i saw that i said we have to do ...

U. S. No longer on the sidelines what happens as we move forward . Reaction from our allies continues to pour in. What are we learning this morning . Reporter good morning the reaction coming in fast and foou furious, you have countries like saudi arabia, qatar waiting for this for yours, they are calling trumps decision a courageous decision, turkey also calling it a positive response saying the next step should be an immediate implementation of no fly zones, there was a cartoon in the arab new...

This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington and welcome to fridays mtp daily. Everyone is trying to decode President Trumps action in syria. What do last nights strikes mean . Are we looking at Mission Creep or Mission Accomplished . What is his goal . End of blood shed . Remove assad . Rattle some sabres . What is mr. Trumps men to the world. Was this a warning to russia . A warning to north koreas ally china . It happened with president xi actually stay...

Extraordinary first combat use of this weapon. The president was very cryptic. Did you authorize it, sir . Everybody knows exactly what happened. So and what i do is i authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the world and theyve done a job, as usual. So we have given them total authorization, and thats what theyre doing, and frankly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. Reporter total authorization. So, yes, commanders have authorization to carry out missions. The critical...

He has not nearly the talent as miller and me. Jesse its admiral and i, by the way. Watters world begins right now. The fact that it involved our campaign and our transition, it should be deeply troubling to anyone who cherishes civil liberties. The purpose was for something political, thats completely impermissible. When you kill innocent babies with a chemical gas thats so lethal, that crosses many lines, including a red line. The u. S. Strikes syria with dozens of missiles. Steve bannon has b...

Joint response. America crossed red lines and they would respond with force in the future. President trump meeting with Foreign Policy team over the weekend at maralago. His secretary of state pointed the finger at russia saying moscow failed to destroy syrias chemical weapons. Regardless of whether russia was complicit here or whether they were simply incompetent or got outwitted by the Bashar Alassad regime you would have to ask the russians. Theyve failed in their commitment to the internatio...